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"We find only the world we look for." ~ Thoreau

Simply, I want to look for beauty. I want to find it and express it and share it with others. I paint as often as possible.

Keowee Fall - final and some of the process. A dear friend took me on a boat ride up this gorgeous lake. References abou...
10/17/2026

Keowee Fall - final and some of the process. A dear friend took me on a boat ride up this gorgeous lake. References abound!!

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These cliffs are so known to me. We go way back. Back to childhood. Back to college days. Back to hikes with my family a...
10/15/2026

These cliffs are so known to me. We go way back. Back to childhood. Back to college days. Back to hikes with my family and my toddlers and then my grown children. And now I go back to paint them. And they say hello.

Palo Duro en Plein air.

10/14/2026

The finishing touch before this one goes home to a new collector. 🌻

10/14/2026

I am a woman of the people and I shall give them what they want.

Just call me Gypsy Rose Lee. 🌹

This week’s art studio featuring cadmium red mixed with various yellows (red dominant). These are fun and addicting.

10/13/2026

Random thoughts as I clean my desk and work on a project I dreamed up in the middle of the night.

An artist friend of mine died recently in a motorcycle accident.

We were in an exhibition together nine years ago, one of my first real “big breaks” as an artist. He was kind to me. He made beautiful sculptures, and I remember wanting one so badly, but I couldn’t afford it.

I’ve kept his business card on my desk ever since.

Recently, the gallery that represented him sent an email sharing that nine of his sculptures had sold since his death.

And while I know those sales are a wonderful thing for the family he left behind, I couldn’t help but feel terribly sad.

I kept thinking about what those nine sales might have meant to him while he was alive. How proud he might have felt. How encouraged. How wonderful it would have been for him to know that nine people loved his work enough to bring it into their homes.

Being an artist can be an emotionally difficult way to make a living.

There is this constant pull to create. The desire to make something meaningful and put it out into the world. The hope that someone will notice, that something you made will resonate with another person.

And then there is the practical side. The need to sell enough to keep going. The endless work of putting yourself out there, opening yourself up to rejection, disappointment, and sometimes silence.

And then picking yourself up and beginning again.

Another blank page. Another painting. Another attempt.

I wish I had bought one of his sculptures while he was here. I wish he had known how much I admired his work.

So here’s my little thought for today.

Buy the art. Support living artists. Tell them when something they’ve created moves you. You may never know how much that encouragement means.

To my friend John. I’m glad I kept your card. 🌻

My friend my mentor! Lorenzo Chavez is the best. If you have an opportunity to learn from him, take it! Couldn’t resist ...
10/12/2026

My friend my mentor! Lorenzo Chavez is the best. If you have an opportunity to learn from him, take it!

Couldn’t resist the clouds above our beautiful canyon walls. Hot but gorgeous. We were all happy when the clouds popped up!

I’ve never done the “line the painting up with the landscape” thing that others do.

Hi!! I am covered in dirt from the wind. See next slide.

Exhibit one: dust in my lap!

Such a fun group to help and to get to know.

The man doin his thing!! Lorenzo Chavez

We all tried to find some shade.

Art show!

A clever way to hold down the palette in the wind.

10/08/2026

Fixing a spot on this piece and changing the tree and edges. Pretty fall day at the canyon. Pastel is so forgiving and the colors make me swoon. I’ve always liked the broken path in this. The lavender and peach mingled together. 🍂

Prints of this piece coming soon!

10/08/2026

Well of course it’s both.

I always hated this month with all the daily pink washing. I had serious medical phobia way before I ever actually heard the words “this is cancer”. I was always scared of getting cancer. And then I got cancer.

So today when I was driving, I was shocked when I realized I hadn’t thought about it being October and Breast Cancer Awareness month. I like to think I have “moved on.” Left it behind me.

As my dear Uncle Sam McAlexander once said to me, “grief is like being handcuffed. I have no choice but to carry it with me and keep going. I just take the grief with me. Better than the alternative.”

I think of that nearly everyday. And I mostly keep going.

Mostly.

Share with someone you love. đź’•

10/07/2026

A little oil play. Coming to the shop soon. (Also listen to that Ben Rector soundbite again and go make something fun).

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